The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-03-10
MISSING LINKS.


proportionately short and broad-shoul-
dered
Up in Washington Territory it is
said that the edelweiss, the famous
flower of the Alps, is found on Mount
Rainier.
Franz List, 1t is now definitely ascer-
tanned, was a Freemason. He was re-
ceived into the order at Frankfort-on-
the-Main in 1S41.
A locomotive used a. switch-engine
at Bellows Falls, Vt, is said to be the
oldest in this country, having first been
used July 25, 1919.
1t is estimated that over $500. 900
has been spent in unsuccessful attempts
to establish newspapers in Portland,
Oregon, during the past twenty years.
The Dominion government has de-
clined to compensate the Saskatoon
settlers for protecting the government
telegraph line during the rebellion be-
fore the arrival of the troops.
In Montana during the winter cow
boys make a living by killing mount
ain lions, for which bounty of IS per
head is paid. The animals are fero-
fious, and some are very large.
People living on Johnson's Island,
Sandusky Bay, claim to hear the rattle
of skeletons and the tramp of soldiers
these winter nights, and the matter
has gone SO far that one family has left
for the main land.
Ill e
novelist from New York who withdrew
his account from bank because the
teller had a way of throwing down his
pass book when he made deposit that
was ''unspeakably irritating.'
There is money in wood pulp, judg-
ing from the demand. One mill in
Brunswick, Me-, has hard work to keep
ahead of its orders, running night and
day, and pulp made there has gone to
Boston and returned in the shape of
newspapers within forty-eight hours.
Mrs John c. Miller of Kevtesville,
Mo, has a ship biscuit which it is said
was brought from England in 1880.
People who have seen it, however, de-
clare that the petrifaction bears sus-
picious resemblance to a railroad res
taurant sandwich of the present day.
They tell a story in Shasta, Cal,
town about justice of the peace who
fined a citizen &l5 for some offense. Il
won't pay it, said the man. "Will
you pay S10?' demanded the Justice
NO" by Cad, then, gimme So"
pleaded the Justice, but the delinquent
swore he wouldn't pay cent, and he
didn't, and that was the end of it.
There has been an enormous increase
of the German forces on the French
frontier, the force having been raised
from 10000 to 10000. This has been
met by a corresponding increase in the
French frontier forces, and the two
armies are now separated only by
neutral zone Of from twenty to 100
miles. They are almost face to face.
The division of Great Britain into
three realms was prophesied as long
ago as the twelfth century. The proph-
ecy is attributed to .,Benedictus Alb
bas;" and the following translation is
given in the English papers;
when thou seest in Here hart set up.
The one shall go entirely into Ireland;
The second in Apulis shall proudly stay;
The third shall suffer ali manner OF misery In
their own land"
Nothing can reach cut further than
cough at church. 1t may come from
the remotest corner in the rear, but its
echo tickles the throats of those III
front, and then creeps down the aisle
and touches the vergers, and floats
from the choir to the minister, and
never releases its hold until it has
wrung a sympathetic explosion from
every victim. Perhaps you've noticed it.
There is a possibility in England of
the imposition of popular tax, thing
almost unknown. The proposition is
to impose a tax of IS year on all
foreigners working in England, which
would increase the revenue half mil
lion sterling. The tax would be aimed
principally at the Germans, who are
becoming popular as servants, and
have quite supplanted the English in
large hotels.
The Maine agricultural college has
238 graduates and 103 students this
year. The government endowment
| fund amounts to $131, 300, ex-Gov.
COburn having increased the fund by
100000. The state appropriations
amount to s212.61S, and this years
legislature will be asked to appropriate
$27, $50. Last years financial state
ment shows a heavy loss, resulting
| from diseased stock.
Queen Christina was recently in
| formed by the Alcalde of Madrid of the
baptism of the 1,000th baby called AL
| fonso since the death of the late King.
Touched by this mark of sympathy
| from the citizens of Madrid, the Queen
made the baby several handsome pres
ents, including a book with this in
scription: ITO the 1,000th Alfonso,
from a woman whom two Alfonsos
have made happy"
Among those who attended a mind
reading exhibition in Boston the other
| evening was man who evidently
thought mind-reading was the work of
the devil. SO he had come prepared
| to Illustrate the arch-fend, and, until
| he was put out of the hall, fourished a
crucitix and chanted tho Gloria"
When he finally went out the light of
victory was in his eyes, and he shouted
an hoe sig1ao utfaceS.'
One of the abominable inconsistent
cies of the dictionaries, says the editor
of the Louisville C0urter-yournal, is the
spelling of nog in egg-nog with one
"g." While they We're about it, why
didn't they drop one of the ''g's" from
egg and make the word eg-nog? Most
people would look upon "eg-nog,"
however, as rather weak. Those who
use it at all in the holidays want four
gs in it. Egg-nogg is the word.
The remains of acypress-wood coffin,
studded with brass nails, was found
under the first landing of the stairway